Cliffs of stratified marine sedimentary rocks at Cei Bach in West Wales. They are Ordovician (488-443 million years ago) in age and known as the Abery

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Cliffs of stratified marine sedimentary rocks at Cei Bach in West Wales. They are Ordovician (488-443 million years ago) in age and known as the Aberystwyth Grits, having been deposited in a deep marine basin under the Iapetus ocean.

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